OTA DFU of the precompiled hex to the nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart Beacon Kit

[Shailevy]

HI,

I purchased the nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart Beacon Kit (I knew it's discontinued) to perform a quick and simple POC (put my custom 31 bytes for the beacon to advertise the same manner I POC'ed with a laptop -> (  hcitool -i hci0 cmd 0x08 0x0008 {31 bytes} )

Before I start my customization I thought I'd check how I OTA DFU the precompiled hex to the beacon kit.

I tried using Android device and Nrf-Connect and Nrf-Beacon but I can't seem to get it to work.

I also tried to create a zip package from the application hex file but it didn't help as well, to generate the zip I did:

C:\nRF51822 Beacon v1.1.1\Precompiled hex> nrfutil pkg generate --application nrf51822_beacon_app.hex app_dfu_package.zip --hw-version 51 --sd-req 0x88 --application-version 0xFFFFFFFF

So before I dive in with logs and stuff, I'm pretty sure I'm off track and I just need a push in the right direction.

Can someone please shed some light on the correct process?

[Shailevy]

I got it to work

After searching the DevZone I figured I need to use an older nrfutil

dfu genpkg --application .\nrf51822_beacon_app.hex app.zip

And the uses nRF Beacon to update the firmware and got a success message.

I guess my next step now is to figure out how to use the toolchains and create my own hex file